{"product_id":"dancing-out-of-line-ballrooms-ballets-and-mobility-in-victorian-fiction-and-culture-9780821418888","title":"Dancing out of Line: Ballrooms, Ballets, and Mobility in Victorian Fiction and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Molly Engelhardt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing out of Line\u003c\/i\u003e transports readers back to the 1840s, when the craze for social and stage dancing forced Victorians into a complex relationship with the moving body in its most voluble, volatile form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy partnering cultural discourses with representations of the dance and the dancer in novels such as \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre, Bleak House, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda, \u003c\/i\u003e Molly Engelhardt makes explicit many of the ironies underlying Victorian practices that up to this time have gone unnoticed in critical circles. She analyzes the role of the illustrious dance master, who created and disseminated the manners and moves expected of fashionable society, despite his position as a social outsider of nebulous origins. She describes how the daughters of the social elite were expected to \"come out\" to society in the ballroom, the most potent space in the cultural imagination for licentious behavior and temptation. These incongruities generated new, progressive ideas about the body, subjectivity, sexuality, and health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngelhardt challenges our assumptions about Victorian sensibilities and attitudes toward the sexual\/social roles of men and women by bringing together historical voices from various fields to demonstrate the versatility of the dance, not only as a social practice but also as a forum for Victorians to engage in debate about the body and its pleasures and pathologies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47584450248855,"sku":"9780821418888","price":6187.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780821418888.webp?v=1774956288","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dancing-out-of-line-ballrooms-ballets-and-mobility-in-victorian-fiction-and-culture-9780821418888","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}